stop down
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.36 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.
Example Sentences
- "The f/stops are arranged so that as you stop down, each stop allows half the amount of light to pass through as the stop before it did."
- "To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted."